Glucose metabolism transporters and epilepsy: Only GLUT1 has an established role

Michael S Hildebrand; John A Damiano; Saul A Mullen; Susannah T Bellows; Karen L Oliver; Hans-Henrik M Dahl; Ingrid E Scheffer; Samuel F Berkovic

Journal article

Glucose metabolism transporters and epilepsy: Only GLUT1 has an established role

Michael S Hildebrand, John A Damiano, Saul A Mullen, Susannah T Bellows, Karen L Oliver, Hans-Henrik M Dahl, Ingrid E Scheffer, Samuel F Berkovic

Epilepsia | WILEY | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1111/epi.12519

University of Melbourne Researchers

Saul Mullen Author Medical Education

John Damiano Author Medicine - Austin Health

Ingrid Scheffer Author Medicine - Austin Health

Karen Oliver Broderick Author Medicine - Austin Health

Michael Hildebrand Author Medicine - Austin Health

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the patients and their families for participating in our research program. Tina Damiano, graphic artist, is acknowledged for designing Figure 1. Elena Aleksoska (University of Melbourne) is acknowledged for performing genomic DNA extractions. Slave Petrovski (Duke University) is thanked for advice on the tolerance of the GLUT and MCT genes to variation. This study was supported by National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant (628952) to S.F.B and I.E.S, an Australia Fellowship (466671) to S.F.B, a Practitioner Fellowship (1006110) to I.E.S and a Postdoctoral Training Fellowship (546493) to M.S.H.